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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's from Nashville.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's the Ralph Emery Show with Ralph's special guest Mel Tillis.
Brought you in part by Kmart. We've got it and
we've got it good at Kmart, by Jimmy Dean Sausage,
and by Start Us Tours. As you plan your trip
to Music City, be sure to take us Start Us Tour.
Now here's Ralph.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
All right, thank you, Mike, and a great big old
hello to mel Tillis. We're all set to play some
mel Tillis music mail.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'm I'm, I'm, I'm wonderful today, Ralph and you, Oh,
I'm terrific, terrific. Great, let's get on with the show,
all right.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Well, there's nothing right like Texas on a Saturday nice.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Nothing can't compared with no matter how.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
The bottom never pot of New York City's.
Speaker 8 (00:59):
Gotten ride light.
Speaker 9 (01:00):
But it's no thing quite light Texas on a Saturday night.
Speaker 10 (01:05):
Everybody is going sat and Toki on Saturday night, real walking,
talking Western swing and singing songs of blood and yellow Rods.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
There's nothing quite like Texas.
Speaker 9 (01:23):
On Saturday night, Honky.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Talking, Have I underneath that long star sky? You can
lose your blues in Mexico where their women have their wine.
Speaker 9 (01:33):
There's nothing quiet like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 11 (01:47):
With the em.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There's nothing quite like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Nothing can compare with No matter how you try.
Speaker 12 (02:02):
Colorado's mighty friendly with your rocky Mountain High, but it's
nothing quiet.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
When that's un goes down time in the town.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
That's when you hear them still slaves run down. It's
too day. I'm a little there be death the Ministry.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
Lid and rity have a party.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Hearty Lord, how I wish that I can be in abyloon.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There's nothing quite like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
There's nothing can't come Patty with Nonna matter how you try.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
The body never closes.
Speaker 12 (02:50):
New York City's gone ride lights, but it's nothing quite
like Texas on Sturday.
Speaker 10 (02:56):
Nice, but it's nothing quite like Texas on the side
of nights.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, it sounds like they were having a good time.
They were honking mel Tellers and Willie Nelson with Texas
on a Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
It's the name Rand and it's the saving. It's sucking
good good day to be at game.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Game.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
We've got it. We've got it good at Jamon came on,
came on, we got it, got it good.
Speaker 10 (03:43):
It's a good, good feeling, walk to wear door.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
One good definement, master innother on, one good story. It's
a good game, saving.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Away and best to make you.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We're visiting with Mel Tillis and uh talking about a
new movie called Uphill All the Way. And in the
first hour we talked a little bit about this and that,
but we didn't really tell them what Uphill All the
Way is about. What it's a comedy. But what's the
Uphill all the Way?
Speaker 13 (04:37):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What's this picture about?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Is a movie in uh in Marlborough Country, I mean
in Big Ben. It's got the big Uh. It's high
desert country and the beat and the cactus and the cacti.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Down in South Texas, Yes, and uh.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And it takes a place along the border of Texas
Lahitas and that's in Big Ben Country.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
And Roy Clark and I are two guys that are
flim flambers con men.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We live by our wits and we're not actually at.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
Bad guys.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And there are some remnants of Ponchouville's army Ponchouville.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
The revolution is over at the time.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
He's gone to Mexico in nineteen sixteen, and he's gone
to Mexico City. Some of his army has has split
away from the army and have become bandits along the border,
and they are pilfering the trading post and the little
towns that were along the.
Speaker 11 (05:48):
Border about that time. Now, there's a lot of a
lot of true stuff in this.
Speaker 12 (05:53):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And Roy Clark and I we get involved in it.
You and you and Roy Rid There a couple of
screw ups we are. But and he blames everything on me,
and I'm and I'm always you know, I'm getting him
out of this stuff, and he get us into something.
And then see, well you've done it again this time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now along the way, we'll play some of your music here,
how about uh, how about Ruby, don't take your love?
Speaker 11 (06:17):
That's a good I'm glad you're playing that.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You've paid up your lips and roll and curl yourtened hair. Ruby,
are you contemplating going out somewhere? The shadows of the
wall tells me the sun is going down.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Pull don't take your love?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Tell it wasn't me that started that old crazy age
you wore, but I was proud to go into my
patriotic chord.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
And yes it's true, I'm not the man that I
used to be.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh, but.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I still need some couple of me.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
It's hard to love a man whose legs aren't bent
and paralyzed, and the lots and needs of a woman
your age, Ruby, I realized.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
But it won't be long.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I've heard now say until I'm not around, don't take
your love to town.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
She's leaving now because I just heard the slamming of
the door.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
The way I know.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I've heard it slam one hundred times before. And if
I couldn't move, I'd get my gun and put her
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Who don't take your love to town?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Rude be.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Our God saved.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Turnround our guest star of the week, Mail till us
with Ruby, don't take your love to town? Got pretty
(09:20):
Anne Murray up to sing the next songs? You'd like
to hear her sing?
Speaker 11 (09:25):
She's my favorite. Well she's a female singer.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
She's really good.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's Anne Bury time.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Don't run out on me. Gotta make you love me
the way you used to do. Gotta get back to feed.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Input wind in my seals and chry of course against me.
Back to you, back to you, Oh the lonely day,
love me night, looking back time.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Time your friend.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ay, gotta get back to where.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
We used to be. Don't run out of me, don't
run out. Hold there's one more thing I got to
before my packet. I'll make you right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You say the right thing to change your mind by
the way, to get you back again, back again, while
the water time, lonely night, looking back a can time.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Time, don't run out of me.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
You've gotta get back where we used to be.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
Did you?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Don't run out of me.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Once I could catch your e eyes cross and room
and know just.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
What you were thinking.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And when I held you invine a dream is.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
One, but those days a blass and something went wrong,
And when I awake up to the morning stun, I
find myself bad.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Time.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Don't run out on me. Don't run on me.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Don't run out on me.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Time, don't run out on me.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You gotta get.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Back to well, don't.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And murray with time. Don't run out on me.
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Speaker 6 (13:49):
Mal.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Why did you write Detroit City? I've included that in
this show. One of your great copyrights.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Detroit City.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I had a uh when I was in the Air Force.
I had met a lot of guys that or I
met a lot of guys that that told me when
they got out of the Air Force that they were
going to Detroit because they had a cousin or an
uncle arn Ann up there, and they were going up
to work at the automobile factories.
Speaker 11 (14:22):
And I had a song started.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And uh.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I took it to Owen Bradley and the name of
it was I want to go home. And I took
it on to Owen and he said, why don't you
change it to uh uh Detroit City and right about
them people up there, a little more, you know, put
a little more about that, you know, And and I
went back to the office, uh, to cedar Wood, and
(14:52):
I went to Webb's office. I said Webb, I said, uh,
and Wayne Walker was in the office. I said, uh,
you fellas want to help me finish this uh song up?
I said, Owen really liked it. No, Well, they was
a partying and they didn't have the time, So I said, okay,
(15:13):
I'll finish it myself. And I walked down stairs at
cedar Wood, uh and uh.
Speaker 11 (15:19):
I ran into Danny Deal.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
And I said, Danny, I got a song here that
I started, and uh and Owen Uh abradity. He wants
me to change it up, you know, uh and write
a more uh and more about the uh uh the.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
People of Detroit, where they come from and this.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And he said, I've been I've been trying to write
that song for years. I said, well, let's sit down here,
and fifteen minutes we had her. We had it all finished,
and and uh, Belly Grammer he did the demo on
it at in the office. He did the the guitar thing.
(16:02):
He said, let's think of a natrol now. He said,
let me get in tune first, and he was going thong.
I said, that sounds pretty good. Keep that in there.
He said, it does, don't it. And that's how that
got started. That that ituning in the guitar, you know,
down like that. And then Belly he recorded it. And
then a year after that, uh sixty two, I think
(16:27):
Bobby Barry recorded it. I didn't record it because in
the beginning it had a recitation and I wasn't a hell.
The record would have been uh four foot wide if
I'd have done it in those days. But I recorded
uh later on, and I finally uh with some good editing, editing,
(16:50):
and we got it okay.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Let's play your version of it. Okay, I wanna go home.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
I wanna go home, all Lord, I wanta go home.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Last night I went to sleep in Detege City.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home. I
dreamed about my mother, Europe, sister and brother, and I
dreamed about the girl that's been waiting far so long.
(17:51):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I wanta go home.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Oh, I.
Speaker 14 (18:04):
Go home.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The home.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Folks think I'm big dingd Detroit City.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
From the letters that I wrap.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
They think I'm just spy.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
By they I'm made to cars, and by night I'm
making book.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Car Lord upon me.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
They could read between life.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
As you know, I wrote a long black.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Freight trained way of north the Detroit City.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But after all these years I found it.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Well, I've just been wasting my time. But you know
what I'm thinking I'm going to do, folks. I'm gonna
take my.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Fotish pride and put it on a south down feet
and ride.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
How long ago home?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
How long ago home?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Oh? Go home?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
What of mail?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Tell us his great songs you wrote with Danny Dill
called Detroit City.
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Speaker 3 (20:44):
Eddie Raven record for you folks, think you gonna like
this one guy. She's gonna win your heart.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Enough to die pee when you see my dance cross
four and I know you like to steal her love
five mins to her four. I can see the way
she's looking at you.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
I'm running out town.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
I used to feel the same way too, when I
was trying to make her mind.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
She's gonna win your home. She always cats her away.
She right on my stuff, I flavor part. She's gonna
win me your heart. She can't be so very nice.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Let you down. That guy's all good charm.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
If you up to paradise, I've been there.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Once or twice in her arm with my baby running
free text strong man and me hop Now.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Maybe you got what she needs.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
So it's your turn to dry and stop her running around.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
She's going to win your home.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
She always gets her away, singing right from her stock.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I flavor, She's.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Going to win your home.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
You're my boss.
Speaker 14 (23:09):
Time was right.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
I would try him with all my might. To me,
but I walked up with fire because I know she
don't love.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Me anyway, and I know she's gonna win your home.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
She always kept her away she didn't right. The he
stop out of paper. She's going with your home.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
You're gonna n She's going with your whole home.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You knows.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Just walk to the sack that's any raven and she's
gonna win your heart. Yes,
It's from Nashville.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's the Ralph Emery Show with Ralph's special guest Mel Tillis.
Brought you in part by Kmart. We've got it and
we've got it good at Kmart, by Jimmy Dean Sausage,
and by Start Us Tours. As you plan your trip
to Music City, be sure to take us Start Us Tour.
Now here's Ralph.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
All right, thank you, Mike, and a great big old
hello to mel Tillis. We're all set to play some
mel Tillis music mail.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'm I'm, I'm, I'm wonderful today, Ralph and you, Oh,
I'm terrific, terrific. Great, let's get on with the show,
all right.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Well, there's nothing right like Texas on a Saturday nice.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Nothing can't compared with no matter how.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
The bottom never pot of New York City's.
Speaker 8 (00:59):
Gotten ride light.
Speaker 9 (01:00):
But it's no thing quite light Texas on a Saturday night.
Speaker 10 (01:05):
Everybody is going sat and Toki on Saturday night, real walking,
talking Western swing and singing songs of blood and yellow Rods.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
There's nothing quite like Texas.
Speaker 9 (01:23):
On Saturday night, Honky.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Talking, Have I underneath that long star sky? You can
lose your blues in Mexico where their women have their wine.
Speaker 9 (01:33):
There's nothing quiet like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 11 (01:47):
With the em.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There's nothing quite like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Nothing can compare with No matter how you try.
Speaker 12 (02:02):
Colorado's mighty friendly with your rocky Mountain High, but it's
nothing quiet.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
When that's un goes down time in the town.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
That's when you hear them still slaves run down. It's
too day. I'm a little there be death the Ministry.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
Lid and rity have a party.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Hearty Lord, how I wish that I can be in abyloon.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There's nothing quite like Texas on Saturday night.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
There's nothing can't come Patty with Nonna matter how you try.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
The body never closes.
Speaker 12 (02:50):
New York City's gone ride lights, but it's nothing quite
like Texas on Sturday.
Speaker 10 (02:56):
Nice, but it's nothing quite like Texas on the side
of nights.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, it sounds like they were having a good time.
They were honking mel Tellers and Willie Nelson with Texas
on a Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
It's the name Rand and it's the saving. It's sucking
good good day to be at game.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Game.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
We've got it. We've got it good at Jamon came on,
came on, we got it, got it good.
Speaker 10 (03:43):
It's a good, good feeling, walk to wear door.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
One good definement, master innother on, one good story. It's
a good game, saving.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Away and best to make you.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We're visiting with Mel Tillis and uh talking about a
new movie called Uphill All the Way. And in the
first hour we talked a little bit about this and that,
but we didn't really tell them what Uphill All the
Way is about. What it's a comedy. But what's the
Uphill all the Way?
Speaker 13 (04:37):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What's this picture about?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Is a movie in uh in Marlborough Country, I mean
in Big Ben. It's got the big Uh. It's high
desert country and the beat and the cactus and the cacti.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Down in South Texas, Yes, and uh.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And it takes a place along the border of Texas
Lahitas and that's in Big Ben Country.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
And Roy Clark and I are two guys that are
flim flambers con men.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We live by our wits and we're not actually at.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
Bad guys.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And there are some remnants of Ponchouville's army Ponchouville.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
The revolution is over at the time.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
He's gone to Mexico in nineteen sixteen, and he's gone
to Mexico City. Some of his army has has split
away from the army and have become bandits along the border,
and they are pilfering the trading post and the little
towns that were along the.
Speaker 11 (05:48):
Border about that time. Now, there's a lot of a
lot of true stuff in this.
Speaker 12 (05:53):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And Roy Clark and I we get involved in it.
You and you and Roy Rid There a couple of
screw ups we are. But and he blames everything on me,
and I'm and I'm always you know, I'm getting him
out of this stuff, and he get us into something.
And then see, well you've done it again this time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now along the way, we'll play some of your music here,
how about uh, how about Ruby, don't take your love?
Speaker 11 (06:17):
That's a good I'm glad you're playing that.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You've paid up your lips and roll and curl yourtened hair. Ruby,
are you contemplating going out somewhere? The shadows of the
wall tells me the sun is going down.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Pull don't take your love?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Tell it wasn't me that started that old crazy age
you wore, but I was proud to go into my
patriotic chord.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
And yes it's true, I'm not the man that I
used to be.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh, but.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I still need some couple of me.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
It's hard to love a man whose legs aren't bent
and paralyzed, and the lots and needs of a woman
your age, Ruby, I realized.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
But it won't be long.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I've heard now say until I'm not around, don't take
your love to town.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
She's leaving now because I just heard the slamming of
the door.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
The way I know.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I've heard it slam one hundred times before. And if
I couldn't move, I'd get my gun and put her
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Who don't take your love to town?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Rude be.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Our God saved.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Turnround our guest star of the week, Mail till us
with Ruby, don't take your love to town? Got pretty
(09:20):
Anne Murray up to sing the next songs? You'd like
to hear her sing?
Speaker 11 (09:25):
She's my favorite. Well she's a female singer.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
She's really good.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's Anne Bury time.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Don't run out on me. Gotta make you love me
the way you used to do. Gotta get back to feed.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Input wind in my seals and chry of course against me.
Back to you, back to you, Oh the lonely day,
love me night, looking back time.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Time your friend.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ay, gotta get back to where.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
We used to be. Don't run out of me, don't
run out. Hold there's one more thing I got to
before my packet. I'll make you right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You say the right thing to change your mind by
the way, to get you back again, back again, while
the water time, lonely night, looking back a can time.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Time, don't run out of me.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
You've gotta get back where we used to be.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
Did you?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Don't run out of me.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Once I could catch your e eyes cross and room
and know just.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
What you were thinking.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And when I held you invine a dream is.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
One, but those days a blass and something went wrong,
And when I awake up to the morning stun, I
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Time.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
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And murray with time. Don't run out on me.
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Speaker 6 (13:49):
Mal.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Why did you write Detroit City? I've included that in
this show. One of your great copyrights.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Detroit City.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I had a uh when I was in the Air Force.
I had met a lot of guys that or I
met a lot of guys that that told me when
they got out of the Air Force that they were
going to Detroit because they had a cousin or an
uncle arn Ann up there, and they were going up
to work at the automobile factories.
Speaker 11 (14:22):
And I had a song started.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And uh.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I took it to Owen Bradley and the name of
it was I want to go home. And I took
it on to Owen and he said, why don't you
change it to uh uh Detroit City and right about
them people up there, a little more, you know, put
a little more about that, you know, And and I
went back to the office, uh, to cedar Wood, and
(14:52):
I went to Webb's office. I said Webb, I said, uh,
and Wayne Walker was in the office. I said, uh,
you fellas want to help me finish this uh song up?
I said, Owen really liked it. No, Well, they was
a partying and they didn't have the time, So I said, okay,
(15:13):
I'll finish it myself. And I walked down stairs at
cedar Wood, uh and uh.
Speaker 11 (15:19):
I ran into Danny Deal.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
And I said, Danny, I got a song here that
I started, and uh and Owen Uh abradity. He wants
me to change it up, you know, uh and write
a more uh and more about the uh uh the.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
People of Detroit, where they come from and this.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And he said, I've been I've been trying to write
that song for years. I said, well, let's sit down here,
and fifteen minutes we had her. We had it all finished,
and and uh, Belly Grammer he did the demo on
it at in the office. He did the the guitar thing.
(16:02):
He said, let's think of a natrol now. He said,
let me get in tune first, and he was going thong.
I said, that sounds pretty good. Keep that in there.
He said, it does, don't it. And that's how that
got started. That that ituning in the guitar, you know,
down like that. And then Belly he recorded it. And
then a year after that, uh sixty two, I think
(16:27):
Bobby Barry recorded it. I didn't record it because in
the beginning it had a recitation and I wasn't a hell.
The record would have been uh four foot wide if
I'd have done it in those days. But I recorded
uh later on, and I finally uh with some good editing, editing,
(16:50):
and we got it okay.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Let's play your version of it. Okay, I wanna go home.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
I wanna go home, all Lord, I wanta go home.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Last night I went to sleep in Detege City.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home. I
dreamed about my mother, Europe, sister and brother, and I
dreamed about the girl that's been waiting far so long.
(17:51):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I wanta go home.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Oh, I.
Speaker 14 (18:04):
Go home.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The home.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Folks think I'm big dingd Detroit City.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
From the letters that I wrap.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
They think I'm just spy.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
By they I'm made to cars, and by night I'm
making book.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Car Lord upon me.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
They could read between life.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
As you know, I wrote a long black.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Freight trained way of north the Detroit City.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But after all these years I found it.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Well, I've just been wasting my time. But you know
what I'm thinking I'm going to do, folks. I'm gonna
take my.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Fotish pride and put it on a south down feet
and ride.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
How long ago home?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
How long ago home?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Oh? Go home?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
What of mail?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Tell us his great songs you wrote with Danny Dill
called Detroit City.
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Speaker 3 (20:44):
Eddie Raven record for you folks, think you gonna like
this one guy. She's gonna win your heart.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Enough to die pee when you see my dance cross
four and I know you like to steal her love
five mins to her four. I can see the way
she's looking at you.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
I'm running out town.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
I used to feel the same way too, when I
was trying to make her mind.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
She's gonna win your home. She always cats her away.
She right on my stuff, I flavor part. She's gonna
win me your heart. She can't be so very nice.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Let you down. That guy's all good charm.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
If you up to paradise, I've been there.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Once or twice in her arm with my baby running
free text strong man and me hop Now.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Maybe you got what she needs.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
So it's your turn to dry and stop her running around.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
She's going to win your home.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
She always gets her away, singing right from her stock.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I flavor, She's.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Going to win your home.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
You're my boss.
Speaker 14 (23:09):
Time was right.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
I would try him with all my might. To me,
but I walked up with fire because I know she
don't love.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Me anyway, and I know she's gonna win your home.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
She always kept her away she didn't right. The he
stop out of paper. She's going with your home.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
You're gonna n She's going with your whole home.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You knows.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Just walk to the sack that's any raven and she's
gonna win your heart. Yes,
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